Who we are
Residents, teachers, farmers and students who measure their own district and then fix what the numbers show.
Why this exists
Bahawalpur sits where an irrigated green belt meets the Cholistan desert. That edge is where the district's environment is decided: when the canal turns arrive late, the desert moves closer; when the trees along the watercourses come down, the dust does not settle.
National datasets rarely resolve to a tehsil. So we built our own: hourly air readings, quarterly tubewell depths, an annual tree census and a wildlife transect through Lal Suhanra. Everything we publish is the raw number first and the interpretation second.
How we work
- Measure. Fixed stations in five tehsils, plus volunteer handheld readings on drive days.
- Publish. Every reading goes on this site in English and Urdu, free to reuse.
- Act. Plantation, cleanup and repair work chosen by what the data ranks worst.
- Follow up. Saplings are geo-tagged and re-counted at 6, 18 and 36 months. Survival rate is published even when it is poor.
Funding
Small local donations, tree sponsorships and two university research grants. We publish an annual statement of income and spending. We do not accept funding from industries we monitor.
Organisation
- Founded
- 2019
- Tehsils covered
- 5
- Monitoring stations
- 11
- Volunteers on roster
- 1,840
- Trees geo-tagged
- 182,750
- 36-month survival
- 71%
Take part
Bahawalpur needs two hours of your week
Every week we run a cleanup, a plantation drive or an awareness walk. Volunteers pick the one that fits their schedule — no experience needed, tools and water provided.
Follow the work
Daily field photos and readings
Cleanups, sightings and air-quality readings, posted as they happen.